Seattle’s 22-10 victory Sunday over Arizona was that preschool drawing.

The only people who thought this home triumph against the division’s defending champion was beautiful were the people who mattered the most.

“The good teams win ugly games,” said safety Lawyer Milloy, who has spent most of his lush career with good teams. “Good teams, like the Patriots and Colts, are built to win those ugly games. You find a way to stay focused for four quarters, so you’re in a position to win the ballgame. It’s a different mind-set.”

This victory, a vivid depiction of the state of the NFC West, explained why the Seahawks should win the division.

To be able to play as, umh, inconsistently on offense as the Hawks did on this wet afternoon; to make the kind of mental errors they made and still dominate, tells us a lot about the Seahawks’ place in the West.

The Hawks should hang this win on the wall. They earned it. They’re alone in first place. They’re 4-2, and dang it, they’re getting better.

“Everybody, all the analysts, thought they (general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll) were crazy,” Milloy said, “when they started making all those (personnel) moves after the season started.

“But they had a clear vision of what they wanted the team to be and the type of guys they wanted in this locker room, and you’re starting to see it pay off. And everybody in this locker room earned the right to be in here.”

Against the disheveled Cardinals, the Hawks survived a blooper reel of embarrassing mistakes.

• Two consecutive holding penalties on Cameron Morrah turned a third-quarter 31-yard field goal into a 51-yarder, which Olindo Mare still converted because, as we’ve learned over the past two seasons, Mare converts everything.

• A delay of game penalty preceded Mare’s last made field goal.

• Right tackle Sean Locklear was flagged for a first-quarter false start on a first-and-goal from the 1 and the Hawks had to settle for a chip-shot field goal. Locklear also had two holding penalties, nullifying 39 yards of rushing.

• The Hawks scored 10 points as a result of Arizona muffing a punt and a kickoff return. Two of their field goal “drives” went for minus-2 and minus-17 yards.

So it was an ugly win.

It also is the kind of win that gets teams into the playoffs. Ugly can feel optimistic.

“We’re coming together as a group,” Milloy said. “And we don’t care what anybody else is saying outside of us. Nobody thought we’d be in this situation, but that’s why you play the game.

“Our job isn’t to be analysts. You got my blood boiling now. We still strap ‘em up. And the thing about it is, that no matter what position we’re in, the thing I’m happiest about is that this team understands that if we play our ball we can beat anybody. And that’s the bottom line.”